MOL future plans

[Bryan Christianson]

At 12:50 AM +0200 4/7/02, samuel@ibrium.se wrote:
>On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 05:24:48PM -0500, Stefan Jeglinski wrote:
>>  Also, I note that a mol installation from build always writes over
>>  the molrc file. There is no automatic 'save old config' step, like
>>  there might be in an rpm install. I always have to save the old one,
>>  and swap them out. If I forget to do this, I have to go through it
>>  again by hand...
>>
>MOL looks for /etc/molrc-<hostname> and /etc/molrc-0
>before trying /etc/molrc. If you put your mol config it
>/etc/molrc-0 then your are safe :-).
>
>But automatically backing up /etc/molrc during install
>shouldn't hurt either.

Rather than a backup of /etc/molrc, it might be better to put the new 
one in /etc/molrc.dist - that way the user settings are not modified 
at all, but ant new options can be seen in the .dist file and copied 
across if reuired.

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Bryan Christianson
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